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WARD, Colo. (CBS4) – The U.S. Postal Service has proposed ending Saturday delivery, cutting thousands more jobs and closing branches. One of those on the chopping block is a nearly 150-year-old post office in the town of Ward in western Boulder County and the community is fighting to save it.

Ward’s local historian Patty Cither says the post office there opened in 1863 and is the oldest continuously operating post office in the mountains of Boulder County. She says shutting it down will create a big problem for people who rely on post office boxes.

On Tuesday afternoon the town held a community meeting and a recreation of how the mail was delivered in the 1800s.